Benthall Collection.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland, current owner.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ratha-yātra (Hindu festival)--India--Photographs.

Ratha-yātra (Hindu festival).

East Indians--India--Photographs.

East Indians.

India.

Genre:

Photographs.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Production:

1927-1935.

Contents:

Larger image of people on board a car in the Jagganath festival; not yet moving, preparations around the wheels still being completed, 1927

Khasi man; goatee and moustache; cloaked; head and shoulders, forward facing

Five Buddhist men in a line, facing forward; hills and stone buildings behind

Middle-aged Indus Valley male potter sitting among pots; children and adult spectators gathered behind him

Indus Valley woman in cloak; short cut hair and cap; forward facing; larger group of children perched on and standing by stone?wall behind-left

Wife, daughters-in-law & grandchildren of Abdullah Zailiar of?Sheinsha Kharlu, Baltistan, Kashmir; seated on floor against exterior wall of house. Girls and women each wear head-dresses

Two lamas within Mulbekh Monastery; carrying beads; vertical (prayer-flag) pole behind; snow-capped mountains in distance

Two Buddhist women standing; forwards facing; animal fur around shoulders

Woman standing facing inward at junction of two stone walls, braided hair and?pevak head-ornament hanging from cranium; hanging woven basket above left; object made of fur above head level, to right; smaller basket at her feet

Woman standing facing inward at junction of two stone walls, braided hair and perak head ornament studded with turquoise hanging from cranium; handing woven basket above left; object made of fur above head level, to right; smaller basket at her feet

Abdullah's daughter-in-law with 'butter' churn; standing facing forward in front of windowed wall

Statue of the Goddes Durga in the grounds of the Lawrence Mill near Calcutta, 1927

Standing man (Sadhu)

Company built mosque in the grounds of the Lawrence Jute Mill, near Calcutta, 1927

Group of school children and their teacher in the premises of the Lawrence Jute Mill, 1927

Yogi who has been in a trance for a week, seated cross-legged in front of roots of a tree, on thin blanket on stone-built ledge; necklace and head-piece, 1935

Two Tibetan men; one younger lama, other older (?lama); head and shoulders facing forwards, 1934

Yogi who has been in a trance for a week, seated cross-legged in front of base and roots of a banyan tree-trunk, on thin blanket on stone-built ledge; necklace and head-piece, 1935

Families and ware-sellers at Kalimpong bazar; 'Honsen & Co.' building centre frame, behind square; prayers flags to left and right, 1934

Five Tibetan children standing, arranged, in street, 1934

Jagannath festival (6); crowd of pilgrims dressed principally in white, viewed from higher vantage point, 1927

Jagganath festival (16); view of people inside Jagganath's brother's car/carriage; a man stands on one of the beams projecting from the axle of a wheel. Images of gods are being placed inside. Car is now moving, 1927

Jagganath festival (3); three to four people seated on ground in street with?spices/pigments, under umbrellas. Construction of the cars/carriages visible in the background; day prior to festival, 1927

Jagganath festival; island temple where Jagganath to be brought to bathe, where catches fever and whose recovery the car-festival marks, 1927

Jagannath festival (15): First car/carriage begins moving; pilgrims pulling it with ropes to left, 1927

Jagganath festival; wooden figure, c. 3-4 times bigger than life-size, of Jagannath's car's driver; seated on ground cross-legged, in street, 1927

Jagganath festival (1); All three cars' ramps visible; crowds channel toward the central car; Jagganath's brother can be seen walking towards ramp to enter; face painted and large diadem head-dress, 1927

Jagannath festival (5): Argument among pilgrims concerning some rice, 1927

Jagganath festival (19): Car moving; multiple wheels visible, and c.5 foot long wooden horses projecting from the front; ropes disappear off right of frame, 1927

Jagganath festival (12); Jagganath's sister brought into her car/carriage; small crowd on and around ramp leading up into the car, 1927

Jagganath festival (1); Jagganath temple in background; foreground, an automobile in foreground behind men in street, 1927

Jagganath festival (10) elephants and car drivers almost ready, 1927

Jagannath festival (8): Prior to the festival beginning; emptier street; two moving structures centre image, 1927

Jagganath festival (14): Pilgrims are moved back to side of street to make way for ropes pulling car; elevated stone arcades/veranda in background, 1927

Jagganath festival (13); Jagganath enters his car/carriage; crowd throngs the car in question; two elephants in foreground, 1927

Jagannath festival (9): Two elephants carrying a seating-platform on each back, 1927.

Notes:

Collection no.: BNC.

Online resource.

OCLC:

1090105426

Access Restriction:

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